Word: nihilisme
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"He's representative of something I want to comment on," says Wright, 34, "a self-absorption and a nihilism which I see in our culture now." While members of the Latino community complained last week about the sometimes comical accent he uses for the Dominican bad guy, Wright insists he...
Bellow writes many philosophical asides into the book. These very brief but highly content-full paragraphs remind us not only of Ravelstein's appetite for all the belles lettres, but also, by proxie, of Allan Bloom's own writing style. In the Closing of the American Mind, the screed on...
It was Churchill first, and then Roosevelt, who reawakened the West to its core values: freedom, civility, common decency in the face of evil, destructive forces of hate. The challenge that Hitler presented became the occasion for Churchill and Roosevelt and the lovers of freedom to battle the great diseases...
Beyond 2000, the big questions for mankind will not be what to do about garbage, cholesterol and aging. These are "American" and "First World" concerns. The great part of mankind living in underdeveloped areas will still be facing the old problems of hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy and the growing burden of...
Whether you loved it or hated it, 1995's most infamous film--Kids, a day in the life of sex-crazed, drugged-up New York skaters--signaled the debut of an interesting, if not innovative, new talent. In his shockingly realistic screenplay, Harmony Korine, a Californian Jew who left home...